"Last August, Scott Allison checked to make sure that his phone was still working. It was, but there were no calls, no new clients. With pink-slip contagion sweeping the Bay Area, it looked as if his days as the No. 2 executive at a long- successful public relations agency might be coming to an untimely end. So he did what an increasing number of senior managers uncertain of their job prospects are doing: He set himself up at his own company." ... Hard Times Prompt an Entrepreneurial Itch | 
